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iPhone – Copycat?

Recently Nokia Corp. based in Espoo, Finland has been all over the news for their lawsuit against Apple and the iPhone. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware with allegations that the iPhone infringes on 10 of Nokia’s patents, which are related to Wi-Fi access and phone calls.

Nokia has now gone another step in the allegations. As of December 29, Nokia Corp has expanded their legal clash and is now claiming that almost every product created by Apple violates the patents of Nokia. On this date, Nokia filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission, citing that Apple’s iPhone, iPods, and all of their computers are violating the intellectual property rights of Nokia.
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O2 blames the iPhone for network strain

Operator O2 said that people in London England had their service disrupted because of a strain on the network caused by the iPhone and other smartphones.

O2 had an exclusive deal to sell iPhones in the United Kingdom until last month, but told the Financial Times that an 18 percent rise in data traffic since the beginning of this year had caused problems.

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